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Record #165416:

Hafgerdingar: a mystery from the King's Mirror explained / Waldemar H. Lehn, Irmgard I. Schroeder.

Title: Hafgerdingar: a mystery from the King's Mirror explained / Waldemar H. Lehn, Irmgard I. Schroeder.
Author(s): Lehn, Waldemar H.
Schroeder, Irmgard I.
Date: 2003.
In: Polar Record. (2003.), Vol. 39(210) (2003)
Abstract: Suggests that term Hafgerdingar, literally 'sea hedges', in thirteenth-century text refers to superior mirages. King's Mirror is generally regarded as reliable source for contemporary knowledge of Iceland and Greenland and this term has mystified previous scholars.
Notes:

Polar Record. Vol. 39(210) :211-217 (2003).

Keywords: 551.5 -- Meteorology.
551.593.11 -- Mirages.
93 -- History.
93"04/14" -- Fifth to fifteenth centuries A.D.
V -- History.
(*61) -- North Atlantic Ocean.
SPRI record no.: 165416

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